{"id":779,"date":"2008-04-15T09:34:12","date_gmt":"2008-04-15T09:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=779"},"modified":"2008-04-15T09:34:12","modified_gmt":"2008-04-15T09:34:12","slug":"curse-of-the-hidden-shirt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=779","title":{"rendered":"Curse of the Hidden Shirt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am delighted by the story of <a href=http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/04\/14\/sports\/baseball\/14jersey.html?em&#038;ex=1208232000&#038;en=391a2bfe65986ad1&#038;ei=5087%0A>the Boston Red Sox jersey that was concealed in the foundations of the new stadium for the New York Yankees<\/a>. A Boston-loving worker buried it there in hopes of cursing the Yankees.<br \/>\nAfter a tip-off, Yankees owner Randy Levine ordered the jackhammers be produced and the curse-jersey be dug up. They take their ritual magic seriously in Major League Baseball, where many fans don&#8217;t have their tongue in their cheek when they talk about the curse that has stopped their team winning the title. The Red Sox and the White Sox won in &#8217;04 and &#8217;05 respectively, officially ending the two best known curses in baseball, so there is a bit of a curse vacuum right now &#8211; giving Levine reason to be super-cautious, one suspects&#8230;<br \/>\n(Maybe New Zealanders need to stop grumping about the All Black coach and start blaming the voodoo. It&#8217;s been two decades since NZ&#8217;s rugby world champs win &#8211; is that long enough to count as a curse?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am delighted by the story of the Boston Red Sox jersey that was concealed in the foundations of the new stadium for the New York Yankees. A Boston-loving worker buried it there in hopes of cursing the Yankees. After a tip-off, Yankees owner Randy Levine ordered the jackhammers be produced and the curse-jersey be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=779\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Curse of the Hidden Shirt<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-and-also"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8D9ZE-cz","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}